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Some conceptual and empirical issues in linguistic theory : an illustration with pronominal clitics [PDF]

, 2013
I would like to discuss a few general conceptual issues in linguistic theory, and see how they bear on some empirical facts about pronominal clitics. In particular, I would like to show that the conception of linguistic theory, justified on independent ...
Law, Paul
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Kinship‐based deference among Jaru siblings: A collaborative, adaptive, and multimodal accomplishment

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract In the Jaru community of northern Western Australia, certain in‐laws and relatives are categorized as being in a highly respectful relationship in which they are expected to pay deference to one another. This conversation‐analytic study closely examines the deferential practices that are used among three Jaru siblings in an ordinary multi ...
Josua Dahmen
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New Insights Into Lakota Syntax: The Encoding of Arguments and the Number of Verbal Affixes

Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the morphosyntax of transitive constructions in Lakota, with particular emphasis being placed on the encoding of arguments. The analysis of argument marking through verbal affixes in Lakota transitive constructions raises two main questions: the existence or non‐existence of the zero marker for the third person singular and
Avelino Corral Esteban
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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective

Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
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Reflexive clitics are verbal, not pronominal

Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique, 2022
AbstractI argue that reflexive clitics are not pronominal, but verbal. Cross-linguistically, reflexive clitics can realize either an unaccusative or an unergative Voice head, both of which allow anaphoric interpretations (as suggested by the work of Reinhart and Siloni 2004, 2005).
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Persian object clitics and the syntax-morphology interface [PDF]

, 2010
International audienceThis paper presents a descriptive overview and formal analysis of the use of pronominal clitics for realizing various types of arguments in Persian, with particular emphasis on object clitics in the verbal domain.
Samvelian, Pollet, Tseng, Jesse
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Motivations for second position: Evidence from North-Central Australia [PDF]

, 2006
It has long been observed that many languages from all over the world require that certain grammatical categories (e.g., person, number, tense, modality) occur in the "second position" of a clause.
Ilana Mushin, Swartz, Vallduví
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Persian Deixis in the Flow of Conversation

Studia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 469-488, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the two demonstratives in Persian conversation, namely the proximal een, “this,” and distal oun, “that,” and their plural forms, that constitute the bulk of Persian pronominal and adnominal demonstratives functioning as anaphoric, deictic, discourse‐deictic and recognitional. The data from which these demonstratives are
Hossein Shokouhi
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Pronominal Subject Clitics in Igbo

Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 2012
Pronominal elements in Igbo have been categorized into two types; the independent ones and the dependent, short, weak ones. Whereas the independent pronominal elements can occur both at the subject and object positions, the so-called dependent ones (which have also been analyzed as resumptive pronouns (Uwalaka, 1995)) are restricted to the subject ...
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Towards an Integrated Model of Change: Language Contact, Dialect Contact, Internal Variation

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 537-555, November 2025.
Abstract This article outlines an integrated model of language change, where change is viewed as the acquisition of innovative grammars by individual native speakers. It is integrated in that it shows how change that is induced by contact between languages, dialects and sociolects can be understood, alongside purely internal change, as part of a single
Christopher Lucas
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